So What’s With the Cowboy Boots, Rick? So What’s With the Cowboy Boots, Rick?
You say you’re the real thing from Texas— An Aggie, not someone from Yale. While claiming to be a straight shooter, You plant a boot high on a bale. ’Twas cotton that grew on your farm, Rick. You didn’t grow up on the range. No horses are used to plant cotton, So cowboy boots seem mighty strange. No phony? Then alter your costume. Although they lack cowboy boots’ zing, If you have a sod-buster background, Bib overalls might be the thing.
Aug 31, 2011 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Executive Pay and the Great Tax Dodge Executive Pay and the Great Tax Dodge
A new report on excessive CEO salaries underscores the need to restore sanity to pay equity and corporate taxes.
Aug 31, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
How Will We Pay for Obama’s New Jobs Push? Answer: Tax Wall Street How Will We Pay for Obama’s New Jobs Push? Answer: Tax Wall Street
President Obama will propose a needed jobs program. But how to get it through a Congress that growls, “America's broke”? Fight for a financial transactions tax.
Aug 31, 2011 / John Nichols
John Nichols: The Cheney Revisionist History Tour Rolls On John Nichols: The Cheney Revisionist History Tour Rolls On
With his new revisionist memoir, Dick Cheney is more concerned about maintaining status within the Republican party than he is about selling books.
Aug 31, 2011 / Press Room
John Nichols: The Cheney Revisionist History Tour Rolls On John Nichols: The Cheney Revisionist History Tour Rolls On
With his new revisionist memoir, Dick Cheney is more concerned about maintaining status within the Republican party than he is about selling books.
Aug 31, 2011 / The Ed Show
Michael Vick and the Forgotten Masses Michael Vick and the Forgotten Masses
Michael Vick's ascension should be cause for reflection, not celebration
Aug 31, 2011 / Dave Zirin
The Years Since 9/11: A Lost Decade The Years Since 9/11: A Lost Decade
In the aftermath of that terrible day, we had a chance to build our politics around social solidarity. Instead, George W. Bush led the charge to a politics of fear.
Aug 31, 2011 / The Editors
Three Questions on Obama’s Great Libyan Adventure Three Questions on Obama’s Great Libyan Adventure
Did NATO help Al Qaeda allies win Tripoli?
Aug 31, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss
The New American Jujitsu The New American Jujitsu
In the wake of 9/11, we have summoned up imaginary demons to spare ourselves from facing the all-too-real burdens of our time.
Aug 31, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
Noted. Noted.
George Zornik on the Keystone XL pipeline, Natasja Sheriff on the link between climate change and conflict and John Nichols on Dick Cheney’s new memoir
Aug 31, 2011 / Various Contributors